Cessare

Lat. To cease; to stop, or stay; to neglect; to come to an end, as an estate. Cessante causa, cessat effectus: the cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. Cessante ratione legis, cessat et ipsa lex: the reason of the law ceasing, the law itself ceases also. Cessante statu primitivo, cessat derivativus: when the primitive or original estate determines, the derivative estate determines also. Cesset executio: let the execution be stayed; a stay of execution, or an order, or entry of an order, therefor. Cesset processus: let the process be stayed; a stay of process or proceedings, or an order, or entry of an order, therefor.

In old English law. Cessavit per biennium: he ceased or neglected for two years; a writ in the nature of a writ of right, and founded on the doctrine of tenure, for failure of a tenant to pay rent for two years, or for failure for a like time of a religious house, holding land upon condition of giving alms, or the like, to perform the condition.

Lat. To cease, stop, or stay.

I. To cease; to stay, stop. Cessante causa, cessat effectus: the cause ceasing, so does the effect. Cessante ratioue legis, cessat et ipsa lex: the reason of the law ceasing, so does the law itself. Cessavit per biennium: the writ of an obsolete real action for the recovery of land, which lay for a lord against a tenant in fee who ceased during two yean to pay rent or perform services; also against a religious house who held lands by spiritual services or alms, when there was not enough goods and chattels on the land for a distress. Cesset e^ecutio, or processus: let the execution or process be stayed; the old formal order, and entry on the record, for such delay.

Lat. To cease, stop, or stay. CMsaaie cawaa, ccsimt eflrcta*; the cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. Bract. fol. 202. 4 Co. 38. ^ Broom'a Max. 68. Shep. Touch. 287. CMnaate rmtlowe leffls, ccaaat et ipsa lex. The reason of the law ceasing, the law itself ceases also. Co. Litt. 70 b. 2 BL Com. 390, 391. Broom's Max. 68. To come to an end, or determine, as an estate. Ceuaate stain primitiTO, cessat deri Tatiras, When the primitive or original estate determines, the derivative estate determines also. Shep. Tot Lch. (by Preston,) 155. 4 Kent's Com. 32. Applied to the cessation of the estates of dower and curtesy, on the determination of the principal estate out of which they are derived. Id. ibid. 8 Co. 67. See Determine. To cease or neglect; to cess, in the old books. Cowell, voc. Cessor. Cessavit per biennium (q. v.); he ceased or neglected for two years. See infra.